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American League
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The American League of Professional Baseball Clubs, or simply the American League, is one of two leagues that make up Major League Baseball in the United States and Canada. It developed from the Western League, a league based in the Great Lakes states. It is sometimes called the Junior Circuit because it claimed Major League status for the 1901 season,25 years after the formation of the National League. At the end of season, the American League champion plays in the World Series against the National League champion. Through 2016, American League teams have won 64 of the 112 World Series played since 1903, the 2016 American League champions are the Cleveland Indians. The New York Yankees have won 40 American League titles, the most in the history, followed by the Philadelphia/Kansas City/Oakland Athletics. Originally a minor league known as the Western League, the American League later developed into a major league after the American Association disbanded, in its early history, the Western League struggled until 1894, when Ban Johnson became the president of the league. Johnson led the Western League into major league status and soon became the president of the newly renamed American League, babe Ruth, noted as one of the most prolific hitters in Major League Baseball history, spent the majority of his career in the American League. The American League has one notable difference versus the National League, in 1902, the Milwaukee Brewers moved to St. Louis and were renamed the St. Louis Browns. In 1902, The Cleveland Bluebirds were also renamed the Cleveland Broncos, in 1903, the Broncos were renamed the Cleveland Naps. In 1915, the Naps were renamed the Cleveland Indians, in 1903, the Baltimore Orioles moved to New York and were renamed the New York Highlanders. In 1913, the Highlanders were renamed the New York Yankees, in 1904, the Chicago White Stockings were renamed the Chicago White Sox. In 1908, the Boston Americans were renamed the Boston Red Sox, in 1954, the St. Louis Browns moved to Baltimore and were renamed as the Baltimore Orioles. In 1955, the Philadelphia Athletics moved to Kansas City and were renamed as the Kansas City Athletics, in 1961, the league expanded and added two teams as the Los Angeles Angels and the Washington Senators, expanding the league to 10 teams. The original Senators team moved to Minneapolis/St, Paul in 1961 and were renamed as the Minnesota Twins. The Angels team name changed to the California Angels in 1966, then to the Anaheim Angels in 1997, the Kansas City Royals and the Seattle Pilots were added to the American League, expanding the league to 12 teams. In 1970, the Seattle Pilots moved to Milwaukee and were renamed the Milwaukee Brewers, in 1972, the Washington Senators relocated to the Dallas/Fort Worth area and were renamed the Texas Rangers. In 1977, the league expanded to fourteen teams, when the Seattle Mariners, in 1998, the Tampa Bay Rays was added to the American League and at the same time, the Milwaukee Brewers were switched to the National League, leaving the American League with 14 teams

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Fenway Park
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Fenway Park is a baseball park located in Boston, at 4 Yawkey Way near Kenmore Square. Since 1912, it has been the home for the Boston Red Sox and it is the oldest ballpark in MLB. It is the fourth-smallest among MLB ballparks by seating capacity, second-smallest by total capacity, Fenway has hosted the World Series ten times, with the Red Sox winning five of them, and the Boston Braves winning one. The first, in the inaugural season, was the 1912 World Series. April 20,2012, marked Fenway Parks centennial, on March 7 of that year, the park was added to the National Register of Historic Places. Former pitcher Bill Lee has called Fenway Park a shrine and it is a pending Boston Landmark which will regulate further changes to the park. Today, the park is considered to be one of the most well-known sports venues in the world, the Red Sox moved to Fenway Park from the old Huntington Avenue Grounds. In 1911, owner John I. Taylor purchased the land bordered by Brookline Avenue, Jersey Street, Van Ness Street and Lansdowne Street and developed it into a larger baseball stadium. However, given that Taylors family also owned the Fenway Realty Company, like many classic ballparks, Fenway Park was constructed on an asymmetrical block, with consequent asymmetry in its field dimensions. The General Contractor was the Charles Logue Building Company, the first game was played April 20,1912, with mayor John F. Fitzgerald throwing out the first pitch and Boston defeating the New York Highlanders, 7-6 in 11 innings. Newspaper coverage of the opening was overshadowed by continuing coverage of the Titanic sinking a few days earlier, Fenway Park has historically drawn low attendance, its lowest occurring late in the 1965 season with two games having paid attendance under 500 spectators. On Wednesday, June 17,2009, the park celebrated its 500th consecutive Red Sox sellout, according to WBZ-TV, the team joined three NBA teams which achieved 500 consecutive home sellouts. The sellout streak ended on April 11,2013, in all the Red Sox sold out 794 regular season games, the parks address was originally 24 Jersey Street. In 1977, the section of Jersey Street nearest the park was renamed Yawkey Way in honor of longtime Red Sox owner Tom Yawkey, and the parks address is now 4 Yawkey Way. Some of the include, In 1934, a hand-operated scoreboard was added, with what was then considered high-technology lights to indicate balls. The scoreboard is updated by hand today from behind the wall. The National League scores were removed in 1976, but restored in 2003, in 1946, upper deck seats were installed, Fenway Park is essentially the first double-tiered ballpark in Boston since the South End Grounds of the 1880s. In 1947, arc lights were installed at Fenway Park, the Boston Red Sox were the third-to-last team out of 16 major league teams to have lights in their home park

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Boston
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Boston is the capital and most populous city of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts in the United States. Boston is also the seat of Suffolk County, although the county government was disbanded on July 1,1999. The city proper covers 48 square miles with a population of 667,137 in 2015, making it the largest city in New England. Alternately, as a Combined Statistical Area, this wider commuting region is home to some 8.1 million people, One of the oldest cities in the United States, Boston was founded on the Shawmut Peninsula in 1630 by Puritan settlers from England. It was the scene of several key events of the American Revolution, such as the Boston Massacre, the Boston Tea Party, the Battle of Bunker Hill, and the Siege of Boston. Upon U. S. independence from Great Britain, it continued to be an important port and manufacturing hub as well as a center for education, through land reclamation and municipal annexation, Boston has expanded beyond the original peninsula. Its rich history attracts many tourists, with Faneuil Hall alone drawing over 20 million visitors per year, Bostons many firsts include the United States first public school, Boston Latin School, first subway system, the Tremont Street Subway, and first public park, Boston Common. Bostons economic base also includes finance, professional and business services, biotechnology, information technology, the city has one of the highest costs of living in the United States as it has undergone gentrification, though it remains high on world livability rankings. Bostons early European settlers had first called the area Trimountaine but later renamed it Boston after Boston, Lincolnshire, England, the renaming on September 7,1630 was by Puritan colonists from England who had moved over from Charlestown earlier that year in quest of fresh water. Their settlement was limited to the Shawmut Peninsula, at that time surrounded by the Massachusetts Bay and Charles River. The peninsula is thought to have been inhabited as early as 5000 BC, in 1629, the Massachusetts Bay Colonys first governor John Winthrop led the signing of the Cambridge Agreement, a key founding document of the city. Puritan ethics and their focus on education influenced its early history, over the next 130 years, the city participated in four French and Indian Wars, until the British defeated the French and their Indian allies in North America. Boston was the largest town in British America until Philadelphia grew larger in the mid-18th century, Bostons harbor activity was significantly curtailed by the Embargo Act of 1807 and the War of 1812. Foreign trade returned after these hostilities, but Bostons merchants had found alternatives for their investments in the interim. Manufacturing became an important component of the economy, and the citys industrial manufacturing overtook international trade in economic importance by the mid-19th century. Boston remained one of the nations largest manufacturing centers until the early 20th century, a network of small rivers bordering the city and connecting it to the surrounding region facilitated shipment of goods and led to a proliferation of mills and factories. Later, a network of railroads furthered the regions industry. Boston was a port of the Atlantic triangular slave trade in the New England colonies

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Massachusetts
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It is bordered by the Atlantic Ocean to the east, the states of Connecticut and Rhode Island to the south, New Hampshire and Vermont to the north, and New York to the west. The state is named for the Massachusett tribe, which inhabited the area. The capital of Massachusetts and the most populous city in New England is Boston, over 80% of Massachusetts population lives in the Greater Boston metropolitan area, a region influential upon American history, academia, and industry. Originally dependent on agriculture, fishing and trade, Massachusetts was transformed into a manufacturing center during the Industrial Revolution, during the 20th century, Massachusetts economy shifted from manufacturing to services. Modern Massachusetts is a leader in biotechnology, engineering, higher education, finance. Plymouth was the site of the first colony in New England, founded in 1620 by the Pilgrims, in 1692, the town of Salem and surrounding areas experienced one of Americas most infamous cases of mass hysteria, the Salem witch trials. In 1777, General Henry Knox founded the Springfield Armory, which during the Industrial Revolution catalyzed numerous important technological advances, in 1786, Shays Rebellion, a populist revolt led by disaffected American Revolutionary War veterans, influenced the United States Constitutional Convention. In the 18th century, the Protestant First Great Awakening, which swept the Atlantic World, in the late 18th century, Boston became known as the Cradle of Liberty for the agitation there that led to the American Revolution. The entire Commonwealth of Massachusetts has played a commercial and cultural role in the history of the United States. Before the American Civil War, Massachusetts was a center for the abolitionist, temperance, in the late 19th century, the sports of basketball and volleyball were invented in the western Massachusetts cities of Springfield and Holyoke, respectively. Many prominent American political dynasties have hailed from the state, including the Adams, both Harvard University and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, also in Cambridge, have been ranked among the most highly regarded academic institutions in the world. Massachusetts public school students place among the top nations in the world in academic performance, the official name of the state is the Commonwealth of Massachusetts. While this designation is part of the official name, it has no practical implications. Massachusetts has the position and powers within the United States as other states. Massachusetts was originally inhabited by tribes of the Algonquian language family such as the Wampanoag, Narragansett, Nipmuc, Pocomtuc, Mahican, and Massachusett. While cultivation of crops like squash and corn supplemented their diets, villages consisted of lodges called wigwams as well as longhouses, and tribes were led by male or female elders known as sachems. Between 1617 and 1619, smallpox killed approximately 90% of the Massachusetts Bay Native Americans, the first English settlers in Massachusetts, the Pilgrims, arrived via the Mayflower at Plymouth in 1620, and developed friendly relations with the native Wampanoag people. This was the second successful permanent English colony in the part of North America that later became the United States, the event known as the First Thanksgiving was celebrated by the Pilgrims after their first harvest in the New World which lasted for three days

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Lee Fohl
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Leo Alexander Fohl was an American manager in Major League Baseball for the Cleveland Indians, St. Louis Browns, and Boston Red Sox. Born in Lowell, Ohio, Fohls involvement in baseball began in the early 1900s. His subsequent major-league playing career consisted of just five games as a catcher and 17 at-bats over two seasons, in 1915, he took over as manager of the Indians, with his best finish coming in 1918 when the Tribe finished in second place behind the Red Sox. He never made an important move, however, without consulting Tris Speaker, in 1919, Fohl resigned as the Indians manager after 78 games, and Speaker stepped in as manager for the remainder of the season. Fohl resurfaced in 1921 with the Browns, where in 1922 the team was eliminated from the pennant race on the penultimate game of the season. When the 1923 Browns fell back closer.500, he was fired in midseason, in 1924, he joined the Red Sox, where he finished his managerial career on a dismal note, his Red Sox teams never finished higher than seventh place. He finished with a 713-792 as manager and he managed the Toronto Maple Leafs of the International League in 1927, but was fired mid-way through the season. He died in Brooklyn, Ohio at age 88, baseball-Reference. com – career managing record Lee Fohl at Find a Grave

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1923 Boston Red Sox season
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The 1923 Boston Red Sox season was the 23rd season in the franchises Major League Baseball history. The Red Sox finished last in the eight-team American League with a record of 61 wins and 91 losses, september 14,1923, George Burns of the Red Sox executed an unassisted triple play. He caught a line drive, tagged the runner off first base, Note, Pos = Position, G = Games played, AB = At bats, H = Hits, Avg. = Batting average, HR = Home runs, RBI = Runs batted in Note, G = Games played, AB = At bats, H = Hits, Avg. com

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Boston Red Sox
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The Boston Red Sox are an American professional baseball team based in Boston, Massachusetts. The Red Sox compete in Major League Baseball as a club of the American League East division. The Red Sox have won eight World Series championships and have played in 13, founded in 1901 as one of the American Leagues eight charter franchises, the Red Sox home ballpark has been Fenway Park since 1912. The Red Sox name was chosen by the owner, John I. Taylor, around 1908, following the lead of previous teams that had known as the Boston Red Stockings. Boston was a dominant team in the new league, defeating the Pittsburgh Pirates in the first World Series in 1903 and winning four more championships by 1918. Following their victory in the 2013 World Series, they became the first team to win three World Series trophies in the 21st century, including championships in 2004 and 2007. Red Sox history has also marked by the teams intense rivalry with the Yankees. The Boston Red Sox are owned by Fenway Sports Group, which owns the Liverpool F. C. of the Premier League in England. The Red Sox are consistently one of the top MLB teams in road attendance. From May 15,2003 to April 10,2013, the Red Sox sold out every home game—a total of 820 games for a professional sports record. Neil Diamonds Sweet Caroline has become an anthem for the Red Sox, the name Red Sox, chosen by owner John I. Taylor after the 1907 season, refers to the red hose in the team uniform beginning 1908. Sox had been adopted for the Chicago White Sox by newspapers needing a headline-friendly form of Stockings. The team name Red Sox had previously used as early as 1888 by a colored team from Norfolk. The Spanish language media sometimes refers to the team as Medias Rojas, the official Spanish site uses the variant Los Red Sox. The Red Stockings nickname was first used by a team by the Cincinnati Red Stockings. Managed by Harry Wright, Cincinnati adopted a uniform with white knickers and red stockings and earned the famous nickname, the Boston Red Stockings won four championships in the five seasons of the new National Association, the first professional league. Other names were used before Boston officially adopted the nickname Braves in 1912

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Major League Baseball
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Major League Baseball is a professional baseball organization, the oldest of the four major professional sports leagues in the United States and Canada. A total of 30 teams now play in the National League and American League, the NL and AL operated as separate legal entities from 1876 and 1901 respectively. After cooperating but remaining legally separate entities since 1903, the merged into a single organization led by the Commissioner of Baseball in 2000. The organization also oversees Minor League Baseball, which comprises about 240 teams affiliated with the Major League clubs, with the World Baseball Softball Confederation, MLB manages the international World Baseball Classic tournament. Baseballs first professional team was founded in Cincinnati in 1869,30 years after Abner Doubleday supposedly invented the game of baseball, the first few decades of professional baseball were characterized by rivalries between leagues and by players who often jumped from one team or league to another. The period before 1920 in baseball was known as the dead-ball era, Baseball survived a conspiracy to fix the 1919 World Series, which came to be known as the Black Sox Scandal. The sport rose in popularity in the 1920s, and survived potential downturns during the Great Depression, shortly after the war, baseballs color barrier was broken by Jackie Robinson. The 1950s and 1960s were a time of expansion for the AL and NL, then new stadiums, Home runs dominated the game during the 1990s, and media reports began to discuss the use of anabolic steroids among Major League players in the mid-2000s. In 2006, an investigation produced the Mitchell Report, which implicated many players in the use of performance-enhancing substances, today, MLB is composed of thirty teams, twenty-nine in the United States and one in Canada. Baseball broadcasts are aired on television, radio, and the Internet throughout North America, MLB has the highest season attendance of any sports league in the world with more than 73 million spectators in 2015. MLB is governed by the Major League Baseball Constitution and this document has undergone several incarnations since 1875, with the most recent revisions being made in 2012. Under the direction of the Commissioner of Baseball, MLB hires and maintains the sports umpiring crews, and negotiates marketing, labor, MLB maintains a unique, controlling relationship over the sport, including most aspects of Minor League Baseball. This ruling has been weakened only slightly in subsequent years, the weakened ruling granted more stability to the owners of teams and has resulted in values increasing at double-digit rates. There were several challenges to MLBs primacy in the sport between the 1870s and the Federal League in 1916, the last attempt at a new league was the aborted Continental League in 1960. The chief executive of MLB is the commissioner, Rob Manfred, the chief operating officer is Tony Petitti. There are five other executives, president, chief officer, chief legal officer, chief financial officer. The multimedia branch of MLB, which is based in Manhattan, is MLB Advanced Media and this branch oversees MLB. com and each of the 30 teams websites. Its charter states that MLB Advanced Media holds editorial independence from the league, MLB Productions is a similarly structured wing of the league, focusing on video and traditional broadcast media

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Road (sports)
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A road game or away game is a sports game where the specified team is not the host and must travel to another venue. Most professional teams represent cities or towns and amateur sports teams often represent academic institutions, each team has a location where it practices during the season and where it hosts games. When a team is not the host, it must travel to games. Thus, when a team is not hosting a game, the team is described as the team, the visiting team, or the away team. The venue in which the game is played is described as the stadium or the road. The host team is said to be the home team, major sporting events, if not held at a neutral venue, are often over several legs at each teams home ground, so that neither team has an advantage over the other. Occasionally, the team may not have to travel very far at all to a road game. These matches often become local derbies, a few times a year, a road team may even be lucky enough to have the road game played at their own home stadium or arena. This is prevalent in college athletics where many schools will play in regional leagues or groundshare. The related term true road game has seen increasing use in U. S. college sports in the 21st century, while regular-season tournaments and other special events have been part of college sports from their creation, the 21st century has seen a proliferation of such events. These are typically held at sites, with some of them taking place outside the contiguous U. S. or even outside the country entirely. In turn, this has led to the use of true road game to refer to contests played at one home venue. In some association football leagues, particularly in Europe, the teams fans sit in their own section. Depending on the stadium, they will either sit in a designated section or be separated from the home fans by a cordon of police officers. However, in the leagues in England, supporters may be free to mix. When games are played at a site, for instance the FA Cup final in England which is always played at Wembley Stadium. This results in each team occupying one half of the stadium and this is different from other sports, particularly in North America, where very few fans travel to games played away from their home stadium. Home and away fans are not separated at these games

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1924 Washington Senators season
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The 1924 Washington Senators won 92 games, lost 62, and finished in first place in the American League. Fueled by the excitement of winning their first AL pennant, the Senators won the World Series in dramatic fashion, the Senators offense was led by future Hall of Famer Goose Goslin, who was one of the youngest players on the team. He drove in a league-leading 129 runs, Walter Johnson had another outstanding year, winning the American League pitching Triple Crown and being voted Most Valuable Player. He anchored a staff that allowed the fewest runs in the league, reliever Firpo Marberry paced the circuit in saves and games pitched. Manager Bucky Harris, who was also the starting second baseman, was the highest paid player on the team. Note, Pos = Position, G = Games played, AB = At bats, H = Hits, = Batting average, HR = Home runs, RBI = Runs batted in Note, G = Games played, AB = At bats, H = Hits, Avg. Behind ace pitcher Walter Johnson, they won the deciding Game 7 in extra innings, the team would get back to the World Series the next year and also in 1933, their last Series while playing in Washington. 1924 Washington Senators at Baseball-Reference 1924 Washington Senators at Baseball Almanac

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Ira Flagstead
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Ira James Flagstead, sometimes known as Pete, was an American baseball player. In 1,218 major league games, Flagstead compiled a.290 batting average with a.370 on-base percentage, as a rookie with the Tigers in 1919, Flagstead compiled a.331 batting average, the fifth highest in the American League. However, the Tigers were loaded with outfielders during Flagsteads tenure with the team, after being traded to the Boston Red Sox in 1923, Flagstead became one of the leading center fielders in the sport, with a combination of speed, a strong arm and a reliable glove. He also set an American League record by starting three double plays as an outfielder in a game, including two runners thrown out at home plate. Flagstead was born in Montague, Michigan, in 1893, as a young man, he moved to the Pacific Northwest, working for two years at a lumber mill in Littlerock, Washington, and then as a mill worker and steam fitter in Olympia, Washington. He played semi-pro baseball as the catcher for the Olympia Senators from 1913 to 1916, with arms and shoulders strengthened from his work as a steam fitter, Flagstead also competed briefly as a lightweight boxer while living in Washington. Flagstead did not begin playing baseball until age 24 when he signed with a team from Tacoma of the Northwest League. He played mostly in left field for Tacoma, by June 1917, he was batting.398 in his first season of professional baseball, had gained national press coverage, and was being hailed as the batting sensation of the year. On July 12,1917, the Tacoma club sold Flagstead to the Detroit Tigers, Flagstead made his major league debut eight days later on July 20,1917. He appeared in four games for the Tigers and had no hits in four at bats, the Tigers sent Flagstead to the Chattanooga Lookouts of the Southern Association to gain additional experience. He compiled a.381 batting average in the weeks of the 1917 season. Flagsteads season ended early in July 1918 when he was called into the military service and his.381 batting average in 1918 led the Southern Association by 48 points. In October 1918, he was reported to be in training at Camp Custer, in February 1919, with the war over, Flagstead returned a signed contract to play for the Tigers in 1918. He played in 97 games for the 1919 Tigers,83 of those games as a right fielder following an injury to Detroit outfielder Chick Shorten. In his rookie season, he ranked among the American League leaders with a.331 batting average, a.415 on-base percentage, late in the 1919 season, teammate Ty Cobb predicted that Flagstead was destined to be one of the greatest hitters in the business. In January 1920, Flagstead signed a contract to return to the Tigers, during the 1920 season, he appeared in 110 games,77 of them as a right fielder. However, his average dropped almost 100 points from.331 to.235. In 1921, the Tigers were loaded with outfielders, including 1921 batting champion Harry Heilmann, Ty Cobb, detroits new manager Ty Cobb decided to move Flagstead from right field to the infield, playing him in 55 games at shortstop and eight games at second base

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Bill Wambsganss
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William Adolf Wambsganss was a second baseman in Major League Baseball. From 1914 through 1926, Wambsganss played for the Cleveland Indians, Boston Red Sox and he is best remembered for making one of the most spectacular defensive plays in World Series history, an unassisted triple play. Wambsganss was a native of Cleveland, Ohio and he attended Concordia College and studied for the ministry before entering professional baseball. In a 13-season career, Wambsganss posted a.259 batting average with seven runs and 519 run batted in in 1492 games played. Due to his surname, Wambsganss was often called Wamby by headline writers. Wambsganss was the second baseman of the Cleveland Indians for ten years. Over a thirteen-year Major League career, he amassed 4,269 assists with 3,420 putouts and he committed only 375 errors in 8,064 chances for a significant.954 fielding percentage. Batting from the second or eighth spot, Wambsganss averaged 74.2 runs per year from 1919 to 1923 and he scored a career-high 89 runs in 1922. He hit a career-high.295 in 1918 and hit.290 in 1923 and he was sent to the Boston Red Sox in the same trade that brought first baseman George Burns to the Indians. In 1924 with Boston, Wambsganss hit.275 and collected career-highs in hits, after a sub-par season in 1925, he was sold to the Philadelphia Athletics. He finished his Major League career with the As in 1926, earlier in the game, Wambsganss teammate Elmer Smith hit the first grand slam in World Series history off Brooklyn Robins pitcher Burleigh Grimes, in the first inning with none out. The historic blast scored Charlie Jamieson, Wambsganss, Tris Speaker, Brooklyn fell to the Indians in an 8–1 loss. Cleveland winning pitcher Jim Bagby helped himself by hitting a home run in the third. It was the first home run hit by a pitcher in modern World Series history, after the World Series, Cleveland fans presented Wambsganss with a medal to commemorate the unassisted triple play. The medal was lost the following April while Wambsganss was traveling aboard a train, after his last year in the Major Leagues, Wambsganss played for Triple-A Kansas City of the American Association. After coaching New Orleans of the Southern League in 1930, he returned to the Kansas City club as manager in 1931, additionally, he managed for four seasons in the All-American Girls Professional Baseball League for the Fort Wayne Daisies and the Muskegon Lassies. In November 1988, Wambsganss and the rest of the AAGPBL received recognition when the Baseball Hall of Fame and Museum in Cooperstown, the gymnasium at Concordia Theological Seminary is named in honor of him. Many dont even remember the team I was on, or the position I played, youd think I was born on the day before and died on the day after

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Bobby Veach
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Robert Hayes Bobby Veach was an American baseball player from 1910 to 1930, including 14 seasons in the major leagues. He was the left fielder for the Detroit Tigers from 1912 to 1923 and also played for the Boston Red Sox, New York Yankees. Veach hit for power and average. He compiled a.310 career batting average and finished second to Ty Cobb for the 1919 American League batting title with a.355 average and he also led the American League in runs batted in three times and was among the league leaders 10 times. Nobody in baseball had as many RBIs or extra base hits as Veach from 1915 to 1922, Veach was also among the best defensive outfielders of his era, regularly ranking among the league leaders in putouts, range factor, and fielding percentage. Detroits 1915 outfield consisting of Veach, Cobb, and Crawford has been ranked by baseball historian and statistician Bill James as the greatest outfield in history, Veach was born in St. Charles, Kentucky, in 1888. His family moved to Madisonville, Kentucky, when he was 12 years old and his father was a coal miner, and Veach also began working in the coal mine as a boy. In 1915, Veach recalled, I started in as a miner when I was fourteen years old and worked at it in the winters until a couple years ago, at age 17, Veach moved to Herrin, Illinois, where he began playing semi-pro baseball. Veach began his baseball career in 1910 as a pitcher with the Peoria Distillers of the Illinois–Indiana–Iowa League. At the start of the season, he was sent to the Kankakee Kays of the Northern Association and he compiled a 10-5 record at Kankakee and was recalled to Peoria. In 1911, Veach was converted from a pitcher into an outfielder and he appeared in 132 games for Peoria, compiling a.297 batting average with 40 extra base hits. Veach began the 1912 season with Peoria, batting.325 with 24 extra base hits in the first 56 games of the season, in July 1912, he was promoted to the Indianapolis Indians of the American Association. He remained in Indianapolis for only two months and two days before being purchased by the Detroit Tigers, in early September, Veach was purchased by Detroit from Indianapolis. He was promptly inserted into the Tigers lineup, replacing Davy Jones as the fielder in an outfield that included future Baseball Hall of Famers Ty Cobb. Veach made his league debut on September 6,1912. He appeared in 23 games for Detroit in 1912, compiling a.342 batting average in 79 at bats, Veach remained the Tigers starting left fielder for 12 years. In 1913, as Veach adjusted to playing in the leagues, his batting average declined to.269. He also showed patience at the plate, drawing 53 bases on balls to boost his on-base percentage to.346, Veach improved steadily in 1914, raising his batting average to.275

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Joe Harris (first baseman)
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Joseph Joe Harris, nicknamed Moon, was an American first baseman in Major League Baseball. He was born in Coulter, Pennsylvania, in 1918, he was drafted into the United States Army. He served during World War I and was in an accident while serving. He suffered 2 broken legs,3 broken ribs, and a fractured skull and he did need plastic surgery to help fix his facial injury. In 1919, he was discharged due to injury from the army, at seasons end, he played for an industrial team, which offered him money and a business. Harris played with the team for the 1920 and 1921 seasons, by violating the reserve clause in his 1919 contract, Harris automatically was placed on organized baseballs ineligible list. Prior to the 1922 season, Harris applied for and was granted reinstatement by baseball commissioner Kenesaw Mountain Landis, Harris died at age 68 in Plum, Pennsylvania. Career statistics and player information from Baseball-Reference, or Baseball-Reference

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Steve O'Neill
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Stephen Francis ONeill was an American professional baseball player and manager. He played in Major League Baseball as a catcher, most notably with the Cleveland Indians. Other notable members of the ONeill family were Jack, a catcher in the National League, Mike, a pitcher in the NL, and Jim. Kashatus noted that Michael and Jack would become the first brother battery in major league history, the ONeill brothers were known to exchange their signals in Gaelic in order to fool the opposing coaches. Steve had by far the most successful playing career of the ONeill brothers and he played with the Cleveland Indians, Boston Red Sox, New York Yankees, and St. Louis Browns. When his playing career ended, ONeill turned to managing in the minors and gained a reputation for cultivating talented young players and he managed the Toronto Maple Leafs, Toledo Mud Hens, Buffalo Bisons and Beaumont Exporters. As a big league manager with four teams—the Indians, Tigers, Red Sox and his Tigers won the 1945 World Series and ONeill was known for turning around under-performing teams, often in mid-season. His career winning percentage over 14 seasons was a stalwart.559 and he also served as a coach for Cleveland, Detroit and Boston. Legendary players who benefited from ONeills guidance included Lou Boudreau, Bob Feller, Hal Newhouser, ONeill was inducted into the International League Hall of Fame. He was also a member of the Cleveland Indians Hall of Fame. ONeill died at age 70 in Cleveland, Ohio, after suffering a heart attack, diamonds in the Coalfields,21 Remarkable Baseball Players, Managers, and Umpires from Northeast Pennsylvania. Jefferson, North Carolina, McFarland & Company, ISBN 978-0-7864-1176-4. com Steve ONeill at Find a Grave

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Howard Ehmke
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Howard Jonathan Ehmke was a right-handed American baseball pitcher. Ehmke compiled a career record of 166-166 with a 3.75 earned run average. His greatest success was with the Red Sox, including a no-hitter, Ehmke still holds the American League record for fewest hits allowed in two consecutive starts. Ehmke also ranks sixteenth on the major league list for hitting batsmen with a pitch. Ehmke hit 137 batters in his career and led the American League in the seven times. He is best known for being the surprise starter who won Game 1 of the 1929 World Series for the Athletics at the age of 35, after retiring from baseball, he started his own company that began making tarpaulins to cover baseball diamonds during rain. Ehmke was born in Silver Creek, New York, in 1894 and he was the ninth of eleven children born to a German immigrant father and a Swedish-American mother. He moved to California as a man and graduated from Glendale High School in 1913. Ehmke began his baseball career in 1914 with the Los Angeles Angels in the Pacific Coast League. He appeared in a total of 40 games for the Angels, a bidding war developed among major league teams seeking Ehmkes services. The Pittsburgh Pirates offered the Angels $5,000 in June 1914, in July 1914, the Kansas City Packers of the Federal League entered the bidding process. The Washington Senators purchased Ehmke from the Angels, but Ehmke refused to sign the contract presented to him by the Senators, on February 13,1915, he finally signed a contract with the Buffalo Blues of the Federal League. He made his league debut on April 12,1915. He compiled an 0-2 record with a 5.53 ERA in 53-2/3 innings pitched, the Federal League folded at the end of the 1914 season, and in May 1915, Ehmke joined the Syracuse Stars of the New York State League. Ehmke appeared in 38 games for Syracuse in 1916 and compiled a 31-7 record with a 1.55 ERA. On July 28,1916, Ehmke was sold by Syracuse to the Detroit Tigers for a price reported to be the biggest sum ever paid for a pitcher in the State League and he did not appear in his first game for the Tigers until September 1916. He appeared in a total of five games for the 1916 Tigers in a short tryout, in 1917, Ehmke appeared in 35 games,25 as a starter, and compiled a 10-15 record with a 2.97 ERA. In late July 1917, sportswriter Paul Purman wrote that Ehmke had bewildering speed, an assortment of curves

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Alex Ferguson (baseball)
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James Alexander Ferguson was a pitcher in Major League Baseball who played for five different teams between 1918 and 1929. Listed at 6 ft 0 in,180 lb. Ferguson batted and he was born in Montclair, New Jersey and died in Sepulveda, California, at age 79. Ferguson was one of the first forkball specialists in major league history and he enjoyed his highest win season in 1924 with the seventh-place Red Sox, when he won 14 games while losing an American League-high 17. In 1925 he divided his time with Boston, New York and Washington, ending with a 5–1 mark. During the World Series, he pitched well against the Pittsburgh Pirates, going 1–1 with a 3.21 ERA in two starts. In a 10-season career, Ferguson posted a 61–85 record with 397 strikeouts, in 1926 Ferguson set a major league record for the highest ERA during a regular season by a pitcher who started a postseason game the same year. Ferguson collected a combined 6.18 ERA while pitching with the Red Sox, Yankees and Senators. The mark was broken in 2006 by Óliver Pérez of the New York Mets, career statistics and player information from Baseball-Reference, or Baseball-Reference Baseballistic Wordpress Retrosheet

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Jack Quinn (baseball)
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John Picus Jack Quinn, born Joannes Pajkos, was a pitcher in Major League Baseball. Quinn pitched for eight teams in three leagues and made his final appearance at the age of 50. Born in Stefuró, Hungary, Quinn emigrated to America as an infant with his parents Michael Pajkos and Maria Dzjiacsko, arriving in New York on June 18,1884. His mother died near Hazleton, Pennsylvania, shortly after the arrival in the US. In 1887 Quinns father remarried, to Anastasia Tzar, Quinn spent his early years working as a swimmer and blacksmith, while playing recreational ball for mining teams. He got his start as a professional in an unusual way, while watching a semi-pro game in Connellsville, the 14-year-old Quinn threw a foul ball back from the stands to the catcher, hitting his mitt right in the middle. The visiting manager, from the town of Dunbar, was impressed by the throw. Quinn went on to spend 23 seasons in the leagues with eight different teams. He won 247 games and lost 218 games, also collecting 57 saves, Quinn debuted on April 15,1909 and he played until he was 50 years old, his final game was on July 7,1933. Quinns professional longevity enabled him to achieve several age-related milestones and he was the oldest Major League player to win a game until Jamie Moyer broke the record on April 17,2012. Quinn is also the oldest to lead his league in a major category and he is furthermore the oldest pitcher to start games in the World Series and on Opening Day. He was the oldest to hit a run in the majors, at age 46. He was the oldest person to play for the Cincinnati Reds, and at the time of his retirement, the eight teams for which he had played also constituted a record. He was also the last major leaguer who had played in the 1900s decade to formally retire, Quinn is one of only 29 players in baseball history to date who have appeared in a Major League game in four decades. Finally, he remains the oldest player to regularly, having pitched 87 1⁄3 innings in 1932 at age 48 and 49. During his career, Quinn played alongside 31 different members of the Baseball Hall of Fame and he was also one of the last pitchers in baseball permitted to throw the spitball, grandfathered in along with sixteen others reliant on the pitch when it was banned in 1920. He frequently used his spitball after he was grandfathered in, in addition to his fastball, curve, in 2006, Jack Quinn was inducted posthumously into the National Polish-American Sports Hall of Fame. Quinn died in Pottsville, Pennsylvania, at the age of 62, diamonds in the Coalfields,21 Remarkable Baseball Players, Managers, and Umpires from Northeast Pennsylvania

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Buster Ross
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Chester Franklin Buster Ross was a major league baseball player for the Boston Red Sox from 1924 to 1926. He was born on March 11,1903, in Kuttawa, Kentucky, Ross holds the modern major league record for most errors by a pitcher in one game with four. He committed four errors on May 17,1925, against the St. Louis Browns, Ross also gave up Babe Ruths 300th career home run, this was on September 8,1925, at Fenway Park. Ruth was the first major league player to hit 300 home runs, **This picture is not correct. it is not the Chester Franklin Buster Ross described in this article. Career statistics and player information from Baseball-Reference

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Red Ruffing
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Charles Herbert Red Ruffing was an American professional baseball player. A pitcher, he played in Major League Baseball from 1924 through 1947 and he played for the Boston Red Sox, New York Yankees, and Chicago White Sox. Ruffing is most remembered for his time with the highly successful Yankees teams of the 1930s and 1940s, Ruffing dropped out of school as a child to work in a coal mine in his native Illinois. He played for the company baseball team as an outfielder. After he lost four toes from his foot in a mining accident, he became unable to run in the field. He played in minor baseball in 1923 and 1924 before making his MLB debut with the Red Sox. After struggling with Boston, pitching to a 36–93 win–loss record, the Red Sox traded Ruffing to the Yankees, after one season with the White Sox, Ruffing retired from pitching to work in coaching. He served as a coach for the White Sox, a pitching coach for the New York Mets. Ruffing was a member of six World Series championship teams with the Yankees and he also appeared in six MLB All-Star Games. He was inducted into the Baseball Hall of Fame in 1967, the Yankees dedicated a plaque to Ruffing in Monument Park in 2004. Ruffing was born on May 3,1905, in Granville and he was one of five children. His parents, John and Louise Ruffing, emigrated to the United States from Germany, Ruffing was raised in Coalton, Illinois and Nokomis, Illinois. He went to school in Nokomis and his father was a coal miner, working in a mine in Coalton, Illinois, until he suffered a broken back. John became the superintendent of the mine, and also served as mayor of Coalton, Red quit school at the age of 13 to work for his father in the mine, earning $3 per day, working as a coupler. Conditions in the mine were dangerous, reds cousin, who also worked in the mine, died in an accident. He also played baseball as an outfielder and first baseman for the company team. When Ruffing was 15 years old, he suffered an accident in the mine, though the doctor was able to save his foot, Red lost four toes. He was supposed to begin his baseball career in the Kentucky–Illinois–Tennessee League that year

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Hoge Workman
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Harry Hallworth Hoge Workman was a relief pitcher in Major League Baseball and a player-coach in the National Football League. A native of Huntington, West Virginia, he attended Ohio State University, a two-sport star at Ohio State and an All-American quarterback, Workman played briefly for the Boston Red Sox during the 1924 season. In 11 relief appearances, he posted an 8.50 ERA in 11 innings of work, including seven strikeouts,11 walks, following his baseball career, Workman played and coached in the NFL for the Cleveland Bulldogs and Cleveland Indians, respectively. Workman died at the age of 72 in Fort Myers, Florida, Hoge was one of five Workman brothers to play football. They played in the game during the Workman Day Celebration. Career statistics and player information from Baseball-Reference, or Baseball-Reference Football Reference Retrosheet